4/2/2023 0 Comments Macfamilytree 8 savingI also looked at several free applications for the Mac, and they either were extremely minimal, funtionally, or they used the GEDCOM file directly. It is a data transfer format, for crying out loud! Any program that uses the GEDCOM directly as the database is unsuitable for my uses, because the raw GEDCOM file as data storage mechanism cannot scale to tens of thousands of individuals. (A side-note: I cannot understand why so many programmers of genealogy software persist in thinking that a raw GEDCOM file is a good way to store genealogical data. It also uses the GEDCOM file directly as the persistant storage, which does not scale. It doesn’t handle rapid data entry well at all, and it cannot handle databases larger than a few thousand individuals. However, my impression of it is that it would make a very good application for a beginning genealogist, who has a very small database.
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